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September 17, 2006, Sunday

To the Editor: In ''In a Screenwriter's Art, Echoes of His Father's Secret'' (Arts pages, March 18), Joe Eszterhas is quoted as asserting that the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations refrained from seeking to deport his father...

The man sitting on the kilim-covered couch, looking out over a snow-dusted woodscape, could not possibly be Joe Eszterhas, the Hollywood heathen. He is a very different Joe Eszterhas than the one Hollywood once knew, the drinking, smoking, phil...

HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL By Joe Eszterhas 736 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. Joe Eszterhas has never exactly been known for his good taste. This is the guy who wrote the screenplays for ''Showgirls'' and ''Basic Instinct'' and ''Jade.'' This is th...

August 10, 2002, Saturday

To the Editor: Joe Eszterhas's spiritual transformation (Op-Ed, Aug. 9) is cause for celebration and may be inspiring to many ''bad'' boys and girls. He is correct about Hollywood's role as an advertising agency for tobacco, and he is right to ...